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Notes on Text Adventures: Interacting with and creating narrative history through accessible programming

Description of Session: Explore legacy text adventures, look at free TA development software, and collaborate on an example text adventure We worked through the website textadventures.co.uk to play legacy text adventures, most popularly Zork I so we could develop an understanding of how interactive fiction works. Most TA begin with the player (you) being dropped into […]

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Make Session – Digital Humanities Toolkit via LibGuides

Facilitator: Lora Smallman Description: I’ll lead a session on building a digital humanities (DH) toolkit intended especially for beginners. If you’re new to DH, this is a great session to come and get your feet wet. I’ll be using a web-based software called LibGuides to build this toolkit. I’d also like to see veteran DH folks […]

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Talk session proposal: Digital Human Rights

Facilitators:  Nancy Lutz, Diana Nastasia, Sorin Nastasia New communication technologies have revolutionized the field of human rights, making it possible to create connections between individuals and organizations in a myriad of different ways. This session hopes to collaboratively explore examples of the ways in which social justice groups and other human rights organizations locally, nationally, […]

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